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2 Polish children killed by bomb, likely from WWII
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish children have died after a bomb believed to from World War II exploded in a field where they were playing. Police said the 10-year-old boy died immediately after the explosion on Tuesday and his 9-year-old sister...Tags: Armed Conflicts, World War II (1939-1945), Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Midwest Aronia berry group to meet in Iowa
Midwest Aronia Association will hold their First Conference, bringing together the largest gathering of aronia pioneer, growers, and producers in the United States, on April 8-9th in Des Moines, Iowa. Featuring speakers from the US and Poland,...Tags: Agriculture, Agricultural Research and Technology, Science and Technology, Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), Wisconsin
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Death camp survivor to speak at Jewish center
Editor's note: This corrects the e-mail address for Joanna Clay. Philip Bialowitz made a promise before he escaped the Sobibór death camp in Poland: If he got out, he would share his story with the world. On Sunday, visitors to the Chabad Jewish...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Religious Conflicts, Civil Unrest, New York, Judaism
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Firefighters rescue deer stranded on Baltic Sea ice floe
L.A. UnleashedWARSAW, Poland -- Polish firefighters dodged treacherous sheets of ice in a risky after-dark rescue of a terrified deer stranded on a floe in the Baltic Sea, a spokesman said Wednesday. The rescue team faced serious hazards navigating among the...... -
Museum of Tolerance hosts Lech Walesa at Solidarity anniversary celebration
Culture MonsterThe Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles this week hosted a 30th anniversary celebration for Solidarity, the Polish trade union that was instrumental in leading to the collapse of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Speaking at the event was...... -
Henryk Gorecki dies at 76; composer of 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer famous for his Third Symphony, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," died Friday following a serious illness. He was 76.
Gorecki (pronounced Go-RET-ski) died in the cardiology ward at a hospital in his home...Tags: Los Angeles, Music Industry, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arts and Culture, Health
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Book Review: Coming of age as all else unravels in 'A Thousand Peaceful Cities'
A Thousand Peaceful Cities
A Novel
Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by David Frick
Open Letter: 144 pp., $14.95 paper
There's a serious question at the center of Jerzy Pilch's comic novel "A Thousand Peaceful Cities": Is political violence ever...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Elaborate State Funeral Held for Polish First Couple
Associated PressKRAKOW, Poland -- An elaborate state funeral for Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, was held Sunday bereft of many world leaders whose travel plans were paralyzed by the plume of volcanic ash that blanketed Europe. The couple's bodies...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Russia, Heads of State, Government, Barack Obama
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Obama cancels Polish funeral journey
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who planned to fly to Poland tonight to attend the funeral of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, today cancelled that journey because of the plume of volcanic ash from Iceland that has closed airports......Tags: Lech Kaczynski, Government, Barack Obama, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation
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Leszek Kolakowski dies at 81; exiled Polish philosopher
Times Staff And Wire ReportsLeszek Kolakowski, an exiled Polish philosopher who turned against his Marxist beliefs and became an intellectual leader of Poland's democracy movement, died Friday at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 81. The cause was "a sudden, short disease,"...Tags: Philosophy, Arts and Culture, Health, Colleges and Universities, Warsaw (Poland)
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Germany, Austria focus on heritage with renovations
Many sights in Germany and Austria have been renovated in the last year or two to better display this region's rich heritage, making 2009 a good time to visit. Several attractions in Munich are newly restored, including the famous glockenspiel at the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Religious Conflicts, Renovation, Judaism, Restaurants
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